Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Shimʻon ben Süsskind
  שמעון בן זיסקינד

Other related names

• Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771, addressee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2008017857)
  בערלין, דוד בן ליב.

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978351423403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1327870073

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

21 Iyar 5528 (May 8, 1768)

Place

Leipzig

Summary

This is a letter written to David Berlin by Shimʻon ben Süsskind, writing in Leipzig (possibly coinciding with the Leipziger Messe); the purpose of the letter is to inquire after multiple attempts to contact "Naftali of Dessau" regarding a proposed match between their children; Shimʻon ben Süsskind's letters had gone unanswered, his attempts to contact him through Eliʻezer of Zabłudów (who was to travel through there) failed; Shimʻon ben Süsskind states that he was worried about the dowry he had sent to Naftali of Dessau through an additional messenger, and asks David Berlin to write another letter to Dessau as that may force Naftali to respond. Shimʻon ben Süsskind additionally beseeches Berlin about the cause of his friend, Natan-Noṭe ben David from Ożarów, whose wife and child were imprisoned (Natan-Noṭe's letter to Berlin survives as UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 559e).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. document.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 121 (May 5, 2020) lot 423 as part of the archive of David ben Loeb Berlin (-1771).
   

Subjects topical

• Natan-Noṭe ben David,--(Ożarów, Poland)
• Rabbis--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--Correspondence
• Jews--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--History--Sources
• Jews
• History
• Rabbis
• Jews--Poland--18th century--History--Sources
• Betrothal
• Jewish merchants--Poland--18th century--Correspondence
• Betrothal--18th century
• Jewish merchants
• Poland
• Germany--Hamburg

Genres

• Personal correspondence
• Sources
• Personal correspondence
• Correspondence
• Letters (correspondence)
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century
• Manuscripts, Yiddish--18th century
• Correspondence artifacts

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS Rar Ms 559k: Letter, 8 May 1768, Leipzig to David Berlin. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2024 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode